Star Wars Episode VIII won’t face off with the now delayed avatar sequel next December?

After Star Wars: Episode VIII was officially pushed back to a Christmas 2017 release date, fanboys clashed as they soon realised it meant it would be taking on James Cameron’s Avatar 2 at the global box office.

Indeed, Just last month James Cameron said Avatar 2 would be in theatres “Christmas of 2017,” but it’s now being reported the sequel to the 2009 mega-blockbuster won’t be ready for its targeted release date.

Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are reprising their lead roles for the Avatar sequel, while reports claimed that innovative underwater performance capture technology will be used. However, specific plot details are thin on the ground at this stage.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already broken Avatar’s domestic box office record of $760.5 million, earning $863.1 million in North America to date. However, a rather disappointing performance in China means it’s unlikely to surpass Avatar’s global total of $2.7 billion, with a current worldwide tally of $1.87 billion so far.

Matt Gault is a sports writer and film fanatic. He is a fully-qualified journalist and has worked for BBCNI, Sunday Life and has been published on The Guardian's website. He interns at REDNI, sub-editing for the Belfast Telegraph. He studied at Queen's University pretending to like history and literature and then University of Ulster Coleraine, where he slacked off enormously for a year and somehow got away with it. He also enjoys Captain Morgans, The Sopranos, Led Zeppelin and Hunter S. Thompson which makes him a remarkably uninteresting person.

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